The Ribbon IDE - a leaner, modern UI for Eclipse
Here's a short video about integrating the Hexapixel Ribbon widget into Eclipse. I'm working on this over the holidays. It will be available for free under EPL.
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8 comments:
Nice one! Wanted to use the Widget myself and make it extensible using the menuContributions extension point. But when Microsoft posted the license for this piece of widget I stopped working on that. Have you reviewed the license yourself?
Great work! Finally eclipse with a ribbon. I didn't know it would look so good.
I won't be able to attend the conference, but you have my vote. It would be great to read a paper on how you did it (or a series of blog articles ;-) ).
Is this e4 platform or is it 3.5/3.6?
Is the source code available somewhere?
I have found github repo on eclipsecon web.
Are you sure about this?Ribbon widget had some IP issues, just like any other ribbon implementation (since microsoft owns it). I think Emil (author) even said he'd stopped development of it.
Nice one! I tried to put menuContributions support to this ribbon control too in summer. But I gave up after I read the MS license for using this control. I think the original author of the SWT control also suspended the development due to the MS license agreement.
Have you taken a look at it already?
I would also like the control to be usable from within Eclipse RCP apps. Keep us updated on the progress!
I am not a fan of 'The Ribbon', but in the case of eclipse, it could replace perspectives nicely! I think that this could work well, on any platform in e4 and I think you should propose it for inclusion.
Excellent!
Luis Carlos Moreira da Costa
Eclipse RAP, RCP, GMF, OSGI, Spring-DM and Pentaho Developer
I find 'The Ribbon' more of an annoyance than convenience.For the new MS office I use a plugin to get the old menu system.May be because I am so used to the old way, but I would expect a preference to switch between the two if it was ever introduced in eclipse (default being the old way).
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